Vended water.

Existing law prescribes various quality and labeling standards for bottled water and vended water, including mineral water, and limits the levels of certain contaminants that may be contained in those water products. Violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law requires water-vending machines to be designed to reduce or remove turbidity, off-tastes, and odors, to provide disinfection treatment, and to use processes for dissolved solids reduction or removal. Existing law defines "water-vending machine" for those purposes. This bill would exempt a water-vending machine from the requirements described above if the drinking water vended by the machine derives from a groundwater basin that does not exceed the maximum contaminant levels.